[Remote] Senior Data Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Modelyst is a three-person engineering firm building production data and machine learning infrastructure for manufacturing and research environments. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to take an AWS data platform from architecture to a working MVP and own its operation thereafter.ResponsibilitiesImplement the designed data pipelines and backend services in Python on AWSDesign and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform and TerragruntDeploy the platform end-to-end into the customer's AWS environment and bring it live for an MVP launch, validating against real operational dataBuild out the CI/CD, observability, and runbooks needed to operate the platform reliablyOwn the platform after launch — incident response, performance, capacity, and costLead the platform's design evolution from MVP through later production stages, making the data model, scaling, and reliability decisions informed by running it yourselfSkillsSenior-level experience shipping production backend or data services in Python. You have built systems other people depend onProduction AWS architecture experience, including event-driven services such as SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Step Functions, and LambdaInfrastructure-as-code with Terraform (Terragrunt is our standard). You've stood up and managed cloud infrastructure end-to-endYou've operated systems in production — incident response, performance, capacity, cost — and been the person accountable when something breaksTime-series or high-throughput data environmentsIndustrial, manufacturing, robotics, or IoT systemsML infrastructure or MLOps toolingLarge-scale data processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Databricks)Japanese language ability is helpful but not requiredBenefitsMedical, dental, and vision insurance.401(k).Company OverviewAt Modelyst, we design tools for automation of distributed computing and heterogeneous data integration to accelerate corporate research in the computational sciences It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, US, with a workforce of 2-10 employees. Its website is https://modelyst.com.